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Last Saturday I went for the first time to the new Nosotros milonga in Cité Culture, Laeken. The venue is in the middle of a residential area with large apartment blocks, and when we arrived, we walked through a small park with tango music in the background and the smell of argentinian meat (cook: “El […]
Read MoreLast Sunday, Gisela and Sergio invited El Flaco Dany to the Pianofabriek to teach some milonga workshops and give a performance at the salon afterwards. He is a master in milonguero style as he demonstrated with Ada Mores and certainly with Gisela, who seemed surprised to be asked, but very happy to oblige. After that, […]
Read MoreThere are two Tangueria milongas per month and I go to most of them, so to make the last one a bit different, I decided to use only my favourite portrait lens and take some pictures away from the dance floor. I am quite happy with the results! First of all someone who prefers to […]
Read MoreTaking pictures at the festival was very rewarding: the venues are special, the people are beautiful, the lighting is challenging and you get lots of compliments. This year, it was even more fun for me, because I had invited a different friend photographer each evening. None of them are tango dancers or had a lot […]
Read MoreI’ve seen lots of people record performances with their cameras/phones but I haven’t seen too much of them show up on e.g. Youtube. Here’s what i have found until now, and I’d be very happy to receive some hint on where to find more videos. Or if you have one but you didn’t upload it […]
Read More(Check out all photos of the Brussels Tango Festival 2009) The last chance to dance at the festival, and with the visiting maestros, was at the swimming-pool-converted-to-milonga Les Bains. Less crowded than the other days, the dance-floor allowed a pleasant dancing experience and made people forget about their sore feet and lack of sleep. A nice […]
Read More(Check out all photos of the Brussels Tango Festival 2009) On Sunday all the festival participants with any life left in their feet gathered at the Theatre de Vaudeville for the much anticipated Surprise & Impro evening. The maestros were put in a circle and the audience got to pick and choose the couples. Some of […]
Read More(Check out all photos of the Brussels Tango Festival 2009) This year the Concert Noble was even bigger than last year: an extra room for dancing and the live concert by Hyperion. The Concert Noble is definitely not the easiest place to take pictures, but it is by far the most exclusive chique venue of this […]
Read More(Check out all photos of the Brussels Tango Festival 2009) Exhibition Night 1: half of the maestros Paula & Mariano Cecilia & Horacio Sigrid & Mazen
Read More(Check out all photos of the Brussels Tango Festival 2009) Friday was a beautiful spring day, and the place to take your tango aperitif on a terras was Cafe Central, on St-Géry/Sint-Goriks. Not only for the sun and the beautiful people, but also for Odile Gheysens & Eric Lecomte with their performance “Elastico-Tango”, which involved dancing […]
Read More(Check out all photos of the Brussels Tango Festival 2009) The opening milonga for the festival was held in the “Maison des cultures et de la cohésion sociale“, a big name for a new venue in the heart of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. As the mayor Moureau explained, it was kind of the unofficial opening of the renovated […]
Read MoreThe Brussels Tango Festival is about to start and here’s some last-minute practical information: The first milonga on Thursday will have a guarded parking on the Place Communale of Molenbeek (500m from the venue). Check out the exact location here: Parking at Maison des Cultures. Print out the memento to have an easy overview of […]
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